Overview: The Fairy Courts is an in-depth exploration of its subject, from the original Scottish to modern fiction, mapping out beliefs and how they have evolved.

It covers the social structure of fairies, the history of the Scottish Seelie and Unseelie courts, the fairy courts outside Scotland, and it offers a look at how fairy courts are being adapted today in fiction and belief.

The Seelie and Unseelie courts have become a staple in fiction and a common idea in pop culture, yet their origins and how they were and are understood in Scottish folklore have become obscure.

The Fairy Courts discusses the history of belief as it is traced from the 1500s to today, concluding with a chapter about the ways that folk belief and anecdotes show us how a human might survive in a fairy court.

Verdict: Simply put, what we have here is an incredibly in-depth and detailed history - From Folklore to Fiction - from the mind of one of the most prolific authors on the subject, that Morgan Daimler.

Daimler, who teaches classes and writes about Irish myth and magical practices, fairies, and related subjects, and who is actually one of the world’s foremost experts on all things Fairy, began constructing this book many years ago as nothing more than an article, which then developed into being a series of conference papers, with everything aimed at answering a question that no one was asking: What are the actual Scottish folk beliefs around the seelie and unseelie courts?

Inclusive of a dutifully researched exploration across different cultures, one which is an incredibly insightful and magnifically sculpted prose on an utterly magical subject matter.

Now, I won’t go into too much more about what Daimler says thereafter, but suffice to say that she is adamant that The Fairy Courts - From Folklore to Fiction in no way seeks to judge what people believe or why, but hopefully it can help illuminate the wide range of ideas around the fairy courts and give people some sense of where these ideas are coming from.

About the Author - Morgan Daimler is a blogger, poet, teacher of esoteric subjects, witch, and priestess of the Daoine Maithe. Morgan is a prolific pagan writer, having published more than a dozen books under Moon Books alone, and she is one of the world’s foremost experts on all things Fairy. She lives in Connecticut, US.

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